Flower Gardening | by H. S. Adams
What is a flower garden ? Doubtless some would say, if one may judge them by their works, that it is a highly decorative frame for the house, or a showy adjunct thereto; or again that it is a colorful possession the joy of which would be materially lessened were the effect not boldly planned for the eyes of the passerby, or. a mere place for the growing of the flowers that one must have.
| Title | Flower Gardening |
| Author | H. S. Adams |
| Publisher | McBride, Nast & Company |
| Year | 1913 |
| Copyright | 1913, McBride, Nast & Company |
| Amazon | Flower gardening |
By H. S. Adams, Author of "Making a Rock Garden," "Lilies," etc.
McBride, Nast & Company
Chapter I. Flowers And The Home- Bacon, in the famous essay that is an eternal joy to the flower lover, maintains that a garden is the Purest of Humane pleasures. Certainly all will agree that it is among the purest. In the natu...
- Chapter II. Flower Gardens Of Many Kinds
- From the days of the ancients, there have been various kinds of gardens. And in this age of specialization there are more and more kinds as the years go by. Already the kinds are so many that life and...
- Flower Gardens Of Many Kinds. Part 2
- The English garden, when highly formal, is very apt to show traces of Italian or French influence. In its less grand estate it possesses a charm that neither of the others has—a certain atmosphere of ...
- Flower Gardens Of Many Kinds. Part 3
- Lilies, both the true and the false; primroses, for spring only; speedwells, pinks, bellflowers, daisies and mallows are also well adapted for named gardens. It is less trouble to buy herbs nowaday...
- Chapter III. Laying Out The Flower Garden
- The initial step toward laying out a flower garden is to make - up your mind not as to the kind that you want but the kind that you ought to have. Although this sounds heart-breaking, it is not so ...
- Chapter IV. How To Succeed With Flowers
- To grow flowers successfully one thing, perhaps above all others, is needed. This is plain, ordinary . gumption. It is all very well to say that flowers will grow for those who love them; that so a...
- Chapter V. Spring Work In The Garden
- Too many there are who look out of the window of a February day and sigh: Oh, I wish that spring would come, so that I might work in the garden again. Not so the wise gardener. Already be is up and ...
- Spring Work In The Garden. Continued
- When April, say, is half over remove the last of the litter, if it is not to remain to be worked in. Use the left hand, and a basket, for this, and, with a two-tined steel table fork or the point of a...
- Chapter VI. Work For Summer Days
- When June is well under way, the gardener rests on his hoe and draws a breath of relief. But only for a moment; work must go on and on. Theoretically growth should now cover the ground completely. ...
- Chapter VII. The Garden's Needs In Autumn
- The work of the garden year is materially less arduous when a proper proportion of it is spread through the autumn months. A good garden axiom is to leave nothing until spring that can be done in autu...
- The Garden's Needs In Autumn. Continued
- Frost begins to be a serious problem some time in September. Very often one or two frosts come quite early and then there will be no more, perhaps, until October. For this reason it is deplorable that...
- Chapter VIII. Borders For A Small Place
- Flower beds, that exhaust the possibilities of geometrical design and then wander off into all manner of devious paths, are well enough in their place. They are necessary, within decent bounds, to the...
- Borders For A Small Place. Continued
- Or the front yard scheme may be extended to two rectangular borders, the remaining boundaries being as near the side limits of the home plot as seems practicable. Leave a break in the border near the ...
- Chapter IX. Accumulating A Garden
- Those whose wealth is a perpetual Aladdin's lamp have but to command a garden and it appears. Infancy and childhood are annihilated in its creation; like Aphrodite—goddess of gardens—rising from the s...
- Chapter X. Why A Hardy Garden Is Best
- Time was when most American flower gardens were hardy. That was still the rule in grandmother's day—the grandmother, say, of those who now are getting toward middle life. Grandmother knew the intri...
- Chapter XI. The Special Value Of Perennials
- All other plants might disappear and the perennials would give the garden supreme loveliness— expressed in hundreds upon hundreds of individual forms. No one knows how many kinds are in cultivation; i...
- The Special Value Of Perennials. Part 2
- Next, sort the cards according to season of bloom—going by the month or, better still, by fortnights; they cover better the average period of perfection. Lay the resultant packs of cards, chronologica...
- The Special Value Of Perennials. Part 3
- Such a temporary use of perennials within the limits of parterre formality and the set designs of park flower beds is quite common in England. The example is one that might well be emulated in the ...
- Chapter XII. The Best Uses Of Annuals
- Best of all the uses of annuals is the most natural one—the employment of them to fill any spaces that hardy plants leave in the garden. Then, if the planting be naturalistic, the flower colony looks ...
- The Best Uses Of Annuals. Continued
- You want to know, perhaps, how small tapering evergreens would define certain garden formality, or would look in an irregular grouping. Experiment with the annual that is well named summer cypress (Ko...
- Chapter XIII. Shrubs In The Flower Garden
- Most of the old-time Łower gardens of the northeastern part of the United States had at least a shrub or two—with others so near as to give them an air of relationship. Flowers were flowers in those d...
- Shrubs In The Flower Garden. Part 2
- For low evergreen growth, semi-formal or naturalistic, there are several good shrubs. The showiest is Azalea amoena, which is ablaze with little solferino blossoms in May and in autumn has bronzed fol...
- Shrubs In The Flower Garden. Part 3
- One of the unfortunate things about shrubs in the North is the lack of true blue, violet and purple shades in the bloom. There are enough shrubs to supply it, but these colors do not seem to go with t...
- Chapter XIV. Spring And Summer Flowers From Bulbs
- No plants are more interesting to grow in the garden than the bulbous ones, especially those that are hardy. There is a peculiar fascination in buying a dry brown, black, white or yellow bulb, sometim...
- Spring And Summer Flowers From Bulbs. Part 2
- Of hyacinths there is less to be learned. Only the familiar Hyacinthus orientalis, single and double, is generally available in gardens north of Washington, but with protection it is possible to grow ...
- Spring And Summer Flowers From Bulbs. Part 3
- For intense blue in March the Siberian squill (Scilia sibirica) is unrivalled unless it is by the early S. bifolia of the Taurus mountains. These two, which have white varieties, are the most desirabl...
- Chapter XV. Seasonal Effects With Flowers
- In the Royall Ordering of Gardens, Bacon held that there ought to be Gardens for all the Moneths in the Yeare: In which, severally, Things of Beautie may be then in Season. Though the writer ha...
- Seasonal Effects With Flowers. Continued
- Some of the best August notes are furnished by Phlox paniculata, the two kinds of boltonia, Lilium aura turn and Lilium speciosum. Various hardy asters, notably A. novae angliae and A. laevis, the ...
- Chapter XVI. The Making Of Flower Pictures
- There is a particularly appealing sentence in Miss Jekyll's Colour in Flower Gardens. This reads: It seems to me that the duty we owe to our gardens and to our own bettering in our gardens is so to...
- Chapter XVII. Flowers For Cutting
- It is a pretty poor home garden in which no flowers are picked. What are they there for—mere show? Such gardens exist, but happily they are in the minority. There is never any need of robbing perce...
- Chapter XVIII. The Most Dependable Flowers
- Any true amateur would find the growing of flowers only along lines of least resistance intolerably tame sport. To him no small part of the charm of the pastime lies in the overcoming of difficulties....
- The Most Dependable Flowers. Continued
- ^Achillea tomentosa Yellow yarrow Acanthus mollis Bear's breech Aconitum autumnale Autumn monkshood ...
- Chapter XIX. Flowers For Shaded Gardens
- Ever since gardens began the value of shade as a means of refreshment to man has been recognized, all manner of devices, from the natural to the sheer artificial, being employed to create it. Only in ...
- Chapter XX. The Joy Of A Flower Hobby
- If you would add joy in the flower garden, make a hobby of some particular flower—or flowers. Here is the crowning touch that raises garden pleasure to the last degree of height. To the ordinary joy o...
- The Joy Of A Flower Hobby. Continued
- The iris offers just as fascinating a field as the lily, with the advantage of being a less expensive hobby within the zone of easy culture. The poor man's orchid has the further advantage of a mate...
- Chapter XXI. Knowing The Flowers By Name
- Every little while you hear this remark: I never can remember the names of flowers. Change can to do and it would be nearer to the truth. Many do not remember the names of flowers, that is lamen...
- Chapter XXII. Birds And The Flower Garden
- More birds would frequent the flower garden if there were fewer cats and dogs roaming around. These much too numerous domesticated animals, because it is their nature, and children, because they are i...
